[OE-core][kirkstone v3 03/19] create-pull-request: Keep commit hash to be pulled in cover email

Yoann Congal
2026-04-07T16:16:24Z

From: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>

The cover email mangling in create-pull-request was cutting off the
actual commit hash to be pulled, making it difficult to verify that the
changes a maintainer merges exactly match those intended by the pull
request author.

The extra lines we want to include are, for example from a recent
whinlatter stable branch PR:

for you to fetch changes up to 6c4c6d39ea3202d756acc13f8ce81b114a468541:

cups: upgrade from 2.4.14 to 2.4.15 (2025-12-29 09:49:31 -0800)

Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit c78f5ae4a5ba3675b78cc226feb7b9fbbfd8da19)
Signed-off-by: Fabien Thomas <fabien.thomas@smile.fr>
Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
---
scripts/create-pull-request | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/create-pull-request b/scripts/create-pull-request
index 885105fab3d..5c4414ecd5f 100755
--- a/scripts/create-pull-request
+++ b/scripts/create-pull-request
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ fi

# The cover letter already has a diffstat, remove it from the pull-msg
# before inserting it.
-sed -n "0,\#$REMOTE_URL# p" "$PM" | sed -i "/BLURB HERE/ r /dev/stdin" "$CL"
+sed -n "0,\#^----------------------------------------------------------------# p" "$PM" | sed -i "/BLURB HERE/ r /dev/stdin" "$CL"
rm "$PM"

# If this is an RFC, make that clear in the cover letter